Barnard, HENRY

Barnard, HENRY, an American educationist, born in 1811 at Hartford in Connecticut, studied at Yale College, travelled in Europe, and became in succession school commissioner of Rhode Island, of the Normal School in Hartford, president of St John's College at Annapolis in Maryland, and, in 1867, commissioner of education at Washington. By his American Journal of Education, he did much to promote the best interests of his country by guiding the public mind on educational questions. His works on his chosen subject are numerous and important; among them are Pestalozzi and Pestalozzism (New York, 1861), and Education (2 vols. Lond. 1878-79).